Across
- 4. Hide in that rickety house for a prank (5)
- 7. Just saying, a Brit holding a flashlight? Agony. (7)
- 8. Spin without the top, top without the bottom (3,4)
- 9. Puzzle piece cuts wood (6)
- 14. Talk to ghosts? Yes, in France and Germany. (5)
- 15. Is the eel leery? Even so... (7)
- 16. Ghastly haunter of starting turf (5)
- 17. Destructive time for the whole lane (9)
Down
- 1. Diplomatic, refined, and cordial, until leeching again (7)
- 2. She made it to a lifeboat, believe it or not! (6)
- 3. Small awe-striking Lovecraftian scientist (4)
- 5. Horror director known for home renovation (9)
- 6. Abjured rumble between mirrored demise (3,3)
- 9. Famous slasher heard adjacent drop, originally after death toll (5)
- 10. Subgenre, or m/m fan in early 2000s (7)
- 11. Suck it up! There's time to turn it around. They're only skin-deep! (5)
- 12. Dismemberer says, "All I do is crave." (7)
- 13. Loners flow back (4)